Your Daily Dose of Virtualization

Sidney Smith

Sid Smith, founder of DailyHypervisor is considered to be a cloud expert in the IT field with over 10 years experience in Virtualization, Automation, and Cloud technologies. Sid Smith started in the industry designing and implementing large scale enterprise server and desktop virtualization environments for fortune 100 and 500 companies. He later went on to become a key employee at DynamicOps the well know creators of Cloud Automation Center. In July 2012 DynamicOps was acquired by VMware who has adopted Cloud Automation Center as a center piece for it’s vCloud Suite of products.
Sid has helped dozens of fortune 100 and 500 enterprises successfully adopt both private and public cloud strategies as part of their IT offerings. The result of which was large operational and capital savings for his customers. Sid continues to help large enterprise customers reach their hybrid cloud strategies at VMware. On DailyHypervisor you will find exclusive content that will help you learn how to adopt a successful cloud strategy through the use of VMware Cloud Automation Center, Open Stack, and other industry recognized cloud solutions.

I just finished reading Project California: a Data Center Virtualization
Server - UCS (Unified Computing System) from Cisco. It gave an excellent take
on Cisco’s view of how UCS benefits a datacenter. It also explains how new
technologies from Intel, QLogic and Emulex all complement the Cisco gear. As
a matter of fact, the first [...]
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Virtualization at Cloud Expo
I attended the second day of the HP Converged Infrastructure Roadshow in NYC
last week.
Most of the day was spent watching PowerPoints and demos for the HP Matrix
stuff and Virtual Connect.
Then came lunch. I finished my appetizer and realized that the buffet being
set up was for someone else. My appetizer was actually lunch! Thanks God
there was cheesecake on the way…
There was a session on unified storage, which mostly covered the LeftHand
line.
At one point, I asked if the data de-dupe was source based or destination
based. The “engineer” looked... (more)

Virtualization at Cloud Expo
I received a pre-release edition of the book at VMworld 2009.
This guide has a great selection of shortcuts, tips and best practices for
setting up and maintaining vSphere 4.
I would be an excellent addition to any VMware administrator’s bookshelf.
The book’s size also makes it a great reference for consultants as well. It
will easily fit into your backpack.
It was authored by the following geniuses from the community:
Thomas Bryant III Stu Radnidge Dave Mishchenko Alan Renouf Duncan Epping
Bernie Baker
Shows these guys some love and pick up a copy to ... (more)

After finally setting up a SLES 10 server on Hyper-V I thought I write a
little how to on getting the Linux Integration components working.
Microsoft includes an install doc that doesn’t really tell the whole story.
I had already installed SLES before I read the manual and found out that XEN
Virtualization support needed [...]
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VMware just set up some discounted certification exams at VMworld. It just
gives you another reason to go! Hi all, VMware will be providing onsite exam
services at this year’s VMworld. The exams available are the VCP on VI3,
VCP on vSphere 4 and the VCDX Enteprise Administration and Design Exams. Both
VCP exams can be taken [...]
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